when i am old and grey
will i look back and say
this is exactly how i thought i would be
when i am old and grey.
© Cindy Lapeña, 2012
Tag Archives: literature
Waiting for the morning (poem)
1As everyone sleeps the night
comes alive with sound
the walls creak pipes murmur
clock beats away sleep
the fridge motor competes
with snoring from the bedroom
and wins as it rises a pitch
the heaters expand cold air crackles
power lines buzz or is it beetles?
A neighbor drives up at 3 a.m.
headlights piercing through blinds
the engine chortles and dies
the outer door heaves open and
closes with a sigh.
Heavy shoes rush up and are silenced
by a carpet upstairs and footsteps shuffle
to bed complaining with loud creaks.
The cold seeps under the door
through the walls to fingers and feet
fighting the heat from a body
nearing defeat waiting for the morning
to put the night to sleep.
© Cindy Lapeña, 2012
Autumn night (poem)
1Thunderclouds threaten
Sunlight fades to purple haze
Autumn night has come.
© Cindy Lapeña, 2012
I Live (poem)
0The body moves
but the soul dances
The voice may be heard
but the heart sings out
The mind invents
but the spirit creates
All art emanates from their creators
All creators live through their art
© Cindy Lapeña, 2012
Storm (poem)
0A solitary raindrop falls
On the neighbor’s rooftop
Echoing on the metal
Like the fragment of the thunderstorm it is.
© Cindy Lapeña, 2012
because you are mine (poem)
0maybe i should say goodbye
and maybe i shouldn’t
i could write to you
and tell you everything
i could trace the past for you
and maybe later
much later
you will understand why
you are you and where you are
why you are who you are
and maybe one day
when you feel angry or confused
and you think you might hate me
you won’t
will you still believe me
if i told you
how much i love you
still
as always
and how i never stopped
flesh of my flesh
heart of my heart
be happy where you are
inspite of
all that has passed and all that will
no regrets should tarnish your joy
can you find it in you to forgive me
and love me still
maybe in time
only you will know
maybe in time
maybe you can ease my mind
you can tell me in your time
look at me kindly
only forgive me and
visit on me peace
everything else will
settle down easy if only
you are happy
© Cindy Lapeña, 2012
attic memories (poem)
0maybe it wasn’t really meant to be
as it was wont to be tho’ now and again i
remember once it happened i can barely recollect
reality has a way of fading away
into the past into the dreams like photographs
anyone can see how happy it was perhaps was it a dream too
gathering in the cobwebby corners of attic memories
enveloped in clouds of dust
insipid memoirs of forgotten pasts
somehow surface from bottomless cavernous chests
(never before disturbed)
opening pandora’s mysteries escaping
tiny creatures flitting fleet shadows
echoing echoes of murmurs from murky prints
aspirations caught in time frozen
silenced by the settling dust spiders spinning webs around
you stepping stealthily trying not to stir the memories.
© Cindy Lapeña, 2012
insomnia (poem)
0sleep
quiet sleep
but restless
not quite
so quiet sleep
toss
turn
mumble
stare
not empty eyes
troubled eyes
terror sleep
reach
higher yet
farther yet
what star where
impossibly high
shot out of the sky
winking earthbound
to sleep
© Cindy Lapeña, 2012
speeding down the narrow (poem)
0you race along the narrow way
over cracks and stones and ruts
unmindful of the cracks and stones and
ruts beneath that race along the narrow way
can you see coming
along trailer speeding
racing too
© Cindy Lapeña, 2012
april showers bring summer (poem)
0the crows call on the day
and night turns into
daylight
streaming through windows
chirping
twittering in leaves that
drop in golden showers
april showers strew the ground
golden ground in piles
that brown at night
© Cindy Lapeña, 2012
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